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Gel-chan — Icon Tutorial :D
Published: 2005-08-28 15:56:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 3031; Favourites: 91; Downloads: 1018
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:0 what the title says. a tutorial for making icons. Covers the basics of making pixel icons, animating them and adding backgrounds. :3 hope it helps.Done with: Macromedia Flash MX, MSpaint, Imageforge
Took: roughly 8 hours over the course of 2 days.
Tutorial (c) me
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yep :3 tho i usually do my animating in PS, so if you have it you might want to try it. I'm pretty sure they all have an animation feature o3o
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well, what do you have? :3 I had elements 1 for years, did almost the same things as CS, and did a lot of things better.
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Mine is version five- Limited Edition, and so far I found no Flash add-ons for it. But I do have Elements as well. Would that work???
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yeah, elements has this neat feature, which lets you save as a .gif with each layer as its own frame in an animation
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Sweet! this helps a lot! XD as you can tell by my amiture avitar I need a LOT of help.. --'
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I'm glad people still find this useful, seeing as I made it YEARS ago! [: hee hee you're off to a good start though!
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I didn't make it. so that's why I say It's amiture.
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But how do you get it on imageforge from paint? My copy and paste won't work, and i don't know where to save it o.0
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um. file -> paste, or there may be some sort of import option under file o__o i haven't used the program in years, so i can't honestly remember.
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Ohhhh.... is there any way to slow down the motion in between the animation/slides? I absolutley suck at this kind of stuff >.<
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hmm. I don't actually remember how to set the frame delay, but if you can find where it has frame delay, change it to something higher. for example, if it's .5 seconds, make it 1 second. or soemthing [:
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oh, on the toolbar, where it says delay, just change the number to something higher. [: that means it stays on that frame for longer.
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I'm glad people still find this helpful! c: it's really old XD
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How do you import your icon done on paint into image forge? Dx
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this is great - it's helped me a lot! thanks!
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glad I could be of assistance! n___n
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You're welcome! <3 glad I could help!!
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This is really helpful. 
Again, thanks for making this!
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Yay, glad I could help <3 Yeah, photoshop definately makes life easier. I don't like imageforge, but it's something that needed a tutorial more than photoshop XD;;
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Do you know how to get it from changing the color? It took a dark grey and turned it green.
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uh. damn. No, I forgot how to fix that. You have to do something like check the "windows 32 bit" box or something...
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-still is confused-
xD Well, this time it changed the background color. Thank god it wasn't the kittah.
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awww D: yeah, I had that problem all the time, that's why I use photoshop more often.
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Naharr.. It's not the best, but here's my new avatar. xD And for some reason... That flash program changed the color...
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I just thought i'd tell you how helpfull your tuorial has been.
I have made numerous avatars with it, including my own, which I have up now.
I persuaded my mum to get ImageForge off Limewire so now I have for ever more, which I am estatic about.
So just to say thanks, it was a big help.
I owe you a lot.
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Oh, I'm so glad it helped <3 Thanks for using it! I love knowing that someone benefitted from this <3
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Very welcome! It was indeed very useful.
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well how would you make it animate in photoshop elements?
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put each frame of animation on a seperate layer, then got to file -> save for web -> .gif -> check the little box that says animate, and set the timing for your frames :3
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thanks <3
pssst~ I like the second quote in your sig XD
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really helpful 
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Yay ;3 yeah, I used to find it hard, too. but it was all I had so I just learned to live with it.
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mrph. Must get to work on pixel skills X) Like to see you have your old avvie back..I like it better than the other one you put up today
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If you want it animated, do you redraw each part you want to move?
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um, sort of, I think. The whole boy, not just the part you're animating has to be on the frame, though o_o;
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eeep your tutorial helped me alot on my avvie. could ya tell me how to make my avatar transparent though?.. I've tried to all day yesterday and I kept failing. >.<;;
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Glad it helped :3 depends what program you're using. o_o; I know how to make things transparent in photoshop and imageforge
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I have photoshop! but whenever I use the magic wand.. it goes all screwy.
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